Nail-holder.



W. TAYLOR.

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APPLICATION man NOV- :a. 19m. RENEWED AUG. 11. 1911.

1 447,?42. Patented Nov. 27, 1917.

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WILLIAM TAYLOR, OF EAST SCOIBEY, MONTANA.

NAIL-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2?, 191% Application filed November 13, 1916, Serial No. 131,138. Renewed August 11, 1917. Serial No. 185,800.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Scobey, in the county of Sheridan and State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in N ail-Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to devices for holding nails and particularly to portable devices of this character adapted to hold and feed nails into convenient position for use.

The general object of this invention is the provision of a device of this character comprising a hopper-like'bodv having a sling whereby it may be supported upon the body of the operator and the body being so formed that the nails will feed downward by gravity to the lower end of the body and may be easily withdrawn from this end.

A further object is to provide a body wh ch is tapering from its receiving to its discharge end and having a relatively large receiving end so that the body will be balanced so that the mouth end of the body swings downward verv slightly to allow the nails to travel to said mouth or discharge end.

A further object is to provide in connection with a body constructed as above described, a slot at the bottom of the body into which the nails will be fed, this slot extending to the discharge end and to provide means for preventing the accidental discharge of nails from the discharge end of the body, but permitting the withdrawal of nails, one by one.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a nail. holder constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4: is a fragmentary section just forward of the lugs 17 and looking toward these lugs.

Referring to these drawings, 10 designates a body which is relatively elongated and formed with an upwardly extending hoppershaped portion 11 at one end, open at its top and adapted to be closed by a cover 12.,

This body is provided with a strap 13 whereby it may be suspended from the shoulder of the operator. The body 10 is formed in its bottom with a longitudinally extending slot 1% which slot extends upward as at 15 at the small end of the body, tho portion 15 of the slot being wider than the remaining portion 14 in order to permit the heads of the nails to pass. Extending clownward over this portion of the slot is a flat spring 16 which is attached to the end of the body in any suitable manner and prevents the passage of nails out of the end of the slot unless the nails are forcibly drawn out past the spring.

When the body or receptacle 10 is filled with nails, the nails gravitate to the bottom of the receptacle and eventually to a position over the slot 14; and the shanks of the nails drop through the slot. The slot, however, is too narrow to permit the heads of the nails to pass. As a consequence. the nails are suspended with the shanks of the nails projecting through the slot. Under these circumstances the operator can, by taking hold of the shank of the first nail, withdraw it past the spring detent 16. Inasmuch as nails vary as regards the diameters of the shanks and diameters of the heads, it is necessary to provide means for adjusting the width of the slot 14. In the form of my invention which I have illustrated in the drawings, the body may be made of sheet metal sufliciently resilient to have the sides urged away from each other but I have provided means for drawing these sides toward each other to thus decrease the normal width of the slot. For this purpose I provide adjacent the rear of the body, the downwardly extending ears 17 which are rigidly connected to the sides of the body and passing through these ears is a bolt 18. The relatively narrow forward end of the body has its walls connected by means of a transverse bolt 19 and by tightening up upon the bolts 18 and 19 it is possible to draw the sides of the body closer together, thus narrowing the slots. WVhen the nuts on the bolts are shifted outward, the resilience of the body will cause the side walls to move away from each other, thus increasing the width of the slot This increase and decrease need be relatively small and it is obvious that the spring detent 16 will under all circumstances prevent the passage of nails from the body unless they are pulled While I have illustrated a form of my invention which I have found very practical and which may becheaply made, yet I do not wish to be limited to this inasmuch as the construction may be varied in detail without departing from the scope of the in 'vention as defined in the appended claim.

gHaving: described my invention, what I claim is: I

A device forv holding andfeedmg nails mouth portion merging into the body by rounded aportions the bottom of the body having a slot extending longitudinally from the large end of the body to the small end thereof and upward on this smaller end, a

movable detent extending downward over 20 this last named portion of the slot, means for contracting the body against theresilience of the metal to regulate the width of the slot, and a supporting sling having its ends swingingly connected to the body sides. 25

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in the presence of two wltnesses.

WILLIAM TAYLOR. Witnesses:

F. IKINLEY,

J. CJJAcKsoN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D; C. 

